Meghan Markle on the ‘Wild’ ‘Suits’ Streaming Boom: ‘Good Shows Are Everlasting’
17.11.2023 - 05:01
/ variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Even Meghan Markle can’t fathom what has made her old USA Network drama “Suits” pop off on streaming services this year, but she’s here for it. While walking the red carpet at Variety’s Power of Women event Thursday, Markle, The Duchess of Sussex, was informed by Variety’s senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson that the legal drama has now crossed 45 billion minutes streamed on Netflix and Peacock combined, as of Nielsen’s latest weekly streaming report, released earlier Thursday.
“Isn’t that wild?” said Markle, who starred as paralegal Rachel Zane on “Suits.” Markle said she has “no idea” what has caused the renewed interest in the series, but then ventured a guess: “It was great to work on, such a great cast and crew. We had a really fun time.
I was on it for seven seasons, so quite a bit. But it’s hard to find a show you can binge-watch that many episodes of these days, so that could have something to do with it.
But good shows are everlasting.” While Markle retired from “Suits,” which aired for nine seasons from 2011-2019, when she got engaged to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in 2018, she has since returned to Hollywood, this time as a producer. The former actor and her husband are developing TV and film projects through their Archewell Productions banner, which has an overall deal with Netflix (coincidentally, one of the streaming homes of “Suits”).
To date, the Sussexes have debuted three projects with the streamer — documentary “Heart of Invictus,” docuseries “Live to Lead” and the autobiographical project “Harry & Meghan” — and Markle teases more to come, with a focus on titles that invoke emotional responses in viewers. “Things that make people feel– I was going say
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